As long as Iran and al Qaeda threaten the United States, Yemen's Houthi rebellion and al Qaeda's presence in Yemen work against U.S. and Saudi interests and security regardless of who governs from Sanaa. Tackling these issues is key to ensuring Yemen's long-term stability and the principal way to protect America, argues JINSA Research Associate Zach Paikin.

The ongoing consolidation of power by the anti-liberal AKP government of Prime Minister Erdogan in Turkey may well represent a longer term threat to Western interests in the Middle East than the ruling mullahs in Iran, argues JINSA Research Associate Zach Paikin.

After last month's failed attempt by Iran to transfer 50 tons of weapons to Hamas, the British and French governments now know where to start looking. And everyone should be looking at the interim government of Egypt. Op-ed by Shoshana Bryen, JINSA Senior Director for Security Policy.

In late June in Tel Aviv, senior Israeli Defense Forces officials briefed JINSA members on the security situation confronting Israel. They provided the group with the following video about the "Flotilla" incident that took place on the morning of May 31, 2010. This is a video you have not seen in the main stream media.

A JINSA delegation in Israel last week participated in two programs designed to advance the discussion of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza and other non-conventional wars of this decade beyond a description of the adversaries of the West and into the means of defeating them.

Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp, CBE, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003, explains what the British should make of their rising casualties in Afghanistan in the latest JINSA Global Briefing.

Much has been made of Israel's so-called "disproportionate" response to Hamas rocket fire against Israeli civilians. However, proportionality as a doctrine in international law does not say that firepower returned has to be equal to firepower taken, and does not require that casualties be equal on both sides, concludes a report by JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy Shoshana Bryen.

Israel has great experience with guerrilla/terrorist forces on its borders with Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. A report by JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy Shoshana Bryen assesses Israel's overall security operations through the prism of the ongoing Gaza War and the lessons of Israel's experience in the West Bank and Lebanon.

JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy Shoshana Bryen wrote in the Baltimore Jewish Times, October 24, 2008, that there are at least two problems with the increasing calls for the United States to engage Iran.

As gasoline in America has remained relatively inexpensive at the pump, the cost of protecting the sources of that energy supply has increasingly risen in terms of defending resources often located in steadily deteriorating regions and amidst the growing forces of criminality and religious radicalism.